The UBS Dividend Ruler portfolio team made some of their first changes for the second quarter, adding in a top insurance company stock that offers outstanding dividends and good upside potential.
If any commodity has proven to be volatile this year it is oil. On any given day crude spot prices can jump or sink big.
While these may not be the world's most exciting investments, they offer steady growth and income in a sector that should continue to see demand. All four make sense for total return accounts.
Friday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations include Apache, Baker Hughes, Jack in the Box, Rite Aid, Synchrony Financial and U.S. Steel.
The question now is what are the good ideas to put to work for the second quarter, especially after a somewhat rough start.
In a new Deutsche Bank report notes that while commercial aerospace is underperforming due to cycle concerns, defense stocks continue to gain Wall Street and investor attention.
It is no secret that we have an aging population, and it requires more and more hospital treatment, whether it is inpatient or outpatient. This trend is going to go on for some time.
Sometimes after a stock has a good run, the analysts on Wall Street start to get a little gun-shy, especially if they made a good call on the stock and it went up smartly.
Thursday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations include Apple, Coach, EMC, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Pfizer and Verizon.
One good avenue for investors to consider, especially with yields sinking once again, is maybe to take profits in cyclicals and move some of those gains to utility stocks.
In a new research report, Stifel has become much more cautious on the sector and especially the more aggressive stocks that the firm covers.
Typically when the chip stocks suffer, so do the semiconductor capital equipment stocks. One Wall Street firm thinks that momentum at the foundries could be building and the rest of 2016 could perk up.
One of the best areas of the stock market to own has been the mega cap arena, and now may still be the best time to add these top stocks to growth and income…
Wednesday's top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations include Alphabet, Apple, Duke Energy, Kellogg, NVIDIA and Wells Fargo.
These are three big value plays that make very good sense in a market that seems overbought at current levels.
A new research report from top boutique firm Wedbush reveals the results for March and the first quarter for the stocks on the firm's Best Ideas list.
This week's top U.S. growth calls from the analysts at Jefferies focus on companies that have some outstanding upside potential, including the following three leading biotech stocks.
Tuesday’s top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations include AT&T, Capital One, Cisco, Novartis, Sprint and Starbucks.
Merrill Lynch has added Raytheon to its High Quality and Dividend Yield list. 24/7 Wall St. also looks at the three highest yielding stocks in the group.
Investors should remember that election cycle hyperbole and rhetoric is nothing new, and this could just be more of the same.
